"The Feminist Attack on Smut," The New Republic, July 25, 1981. (A review of Pornography and Silence by Susan Griffin.)

Excerpt:

It was utterly predictable that freedom of pornographic speech and action would sooner  or later come into conflict with the women’s movement. Pornography, after all, has long been recognized to be a predominantly male fantasy involving the sadistic humiliation of women. The women’s movement itself, however, did not foresee any such conflict. On the contrary: it assumed a perfectly natural congruence between “sexual liberation” and “women’s liberation.” Indeed, it was this assumption that differentiated what in the 1960s we came to call “women’s lib” from the traditional “feminist” movement that is now at least a century and a half old. Whereas feminists demanded more equal treatment and respect for women, corresponding to the more equal status they were in fact achieving in modern society, the movement for women’s liberation proposed to create a radically new human condition for both men and women. There was relatively little utopianism in the feminist movement, which was essentially meliorist and adaptive. Women’s liberation, in contrast, was Utopian in essence, and it was only because it managed to co-opt the feminist impulse that so many were confused as to its ultimate intentions.

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